Penny wanted to laugh and cry and scream. [color=f6989d]"Pain doesn't scare me. But death?"[/color] She sighed and moved to her body, placing a hand on it. Her hands still shook and it pained her to see her body mutilated. [color=f6989d]"I've experienced a lot of pain before. It hurt so bad, I wanted to give up. To die."[/color] Penny's mom used many tactics to keep her defiance at bay. Any instrument of domestic torture, you name it. Penny had been on the receiving end. [color=f6989d]"But then I decided that I would live. I was tired of wanting to give up. I was going to outlive the person who harmed me and become better than they ever could.[/color]" She stared up at Christan defiantly. 

[color=f6989d]"I don't know how I'll get out of here in that state, but the pain does not scare me. I will live and I will pull through. Clearly there's a lot that I don't know about..."[/color] She gestured to him and the vampires, [color=f6989d]"but what I do know is that I can fight. I want to fight."[/color]

Penny couldn't remember the last time she had talked so much. A near death experience really put her personality and goals into a new perspective. Penny didn't want to be the timid, shy girl she was before this happened. She wanted to prove everyone that thought she wouldn't make it in life, wrong. Christian didn't seem like a bad guy. He just wanted to do his job of... reaping, whatever that entailed. Penny liked him. He seemed to genuinely care about her feelings. She just hoped she could appeal to his.